Thursday, January 22, 2015

Another Democrat is expected to be arrested for corruption...

Federal authorities are expected to arrest Sheldon
Silver, the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, on
corruption charges on Thursday, people with knowledge of the matter
said, in a case that is likely to throw Albany into disarray.
The investigation that led to the expected charges against Mr.
Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who has served
as speaker for more than two decades, began after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo
in March abruptly shut down an anticorruption commission he had created
in 2013.
Details of the specific charges to be brought against Mr. Silver were
unclear on Wednesday night, but one of the people with knowledge of the
matter said they stemmed from payments that Mr. Silver received from a
small law firm that specializes in seeking reductions of New York City
real estate taxes. Mr. Silver failed to list the payments from the firm,
Goldberg & Iryami, on his annual financial disclosure filings, as
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